<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=360315" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Veterans' Cemetery</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The ceremonies of the day have ceased,<br>Abandoned to the ragged crow's parade.<br>The flags unravel in the caterpillar's feast.<br>The wreaths collapse onto the stones they shade.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">How quietly doves gather by the gate<br>Like souls who have no heaven and no hell.<br>The patient grass reclaims its lost estate<br>Where one stone angel stands as sentinel.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The voices whispering in the burning leaves,<br>Faint and inhuman, what can they desire<br>When every season feeds upon the past,<br>And summer's green ignites the autumn's fire?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The afternoon's a single thread of light<br>Sewn through the tatters of a leafless willow,<br>As one by one the branches fade from sight,<br>And time curls up like paper turning yellow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Dana+Gioia">Dana Gioia</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=360315" data-title="Veterans' Cemetery de Dana Gioia" data-description="The ceremonies of the day have ceased, Abandoned to the ragged crow's parade. The flags unravel in the caterpillar's feast. The wreaths collapse onto the stones they shade. How quietly doves gather by the gate Like souls who have no heaven and no..."></div> </div> </div>

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